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2 Port Angeles Rotary Club u April 1, 2011 Advertising supplement to the Peninsula Daily News

Greetings from the Port Angeles Rotary Club!

I hope that all of you join our club in celebrating our 90th year as a member of Rotary International.

Our celebratory dinner event takes place on April 9, 2011, at the Masonic Temple located at Seventh and Lincoln streets. Fellowship starts at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m.

Some may wonder what is Rotary and why we are celebrating. Those who are Rotarians, former Rotarians, or acquainted with Ro-tarians already know the answer to that question.

But, for those who are not aware, please let me share some of the reasons why we celebrate.

I believe that any organization that has been around for 106 years must be doing something right.

Our club has certainly been “doing right things”

for 90 years. To list them all would take more print space then I’m allowed today.

However, some of our latest accomplishments glob-ally are Polio Plus, Rotaplast, and ShelterBox.

Rotary International and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have joined together to rid the world of polio. At this time, Rotary has completed approxi-mately 98 percent of its goal. The remaining 2 per-cent will be completed within the next two years.

Rotaplast provides free cleft lip and palate surgery.A ShelterBox contains a tent that sleeps 10 people,

blankets, cooking utensils, a water purification kit and other supplies to help those who are homeless due to a major disaster.

ShelterBoxes have been sent to Indonesia, Haiti, Chili and New Orleans, to name a few.

Some may ask, “What have we done locally?”We have partnered with the Rotary clubs in Port

Angeles and Sequim and received a grant from our district to help homeless families in Clallam County.

Through Healthy Families of Clallam County, Se-renity House and others, we have assisted families in our community who may not have a place to live.

Rotary’s Black Tie Program provides tutors/men-tors to students who are failing a least one class at the high school level.

There are many organizations and groups that benefit from our financial aid, including VIMO, Upward Bound, Boy Scouts of America, and the Feiro Marine Life Center.

We fund scholarships, send students to RYLA, Boy’s State, honor academic students of the month, and maintain the Welcome Garden.

Rotary could not have accomplished any of these things without 1.2 million Rotarians around the world and other concerned people like you who have helped our causes. Now we are asking you to come and celebrate with us on April 9.

If you are interested in becoming a Rotarian, visit our website (www.parotary.org), or ask a person wearing a “Rotary Pin” how it is done. And please remember our motto: Service Above Self.

Chuck HattenPresident 2010-11

Port Angeles Rotary Club

Rotary District 5020 is one of the largest districts in the 1.2-million-member Rotary International.

It is made up of 81 clubs consisting of Van-couver Island in British Columbia, the Olym-pic Peninsula and the area of Pierce County, including Tacoma, south to Woodland.

Each of the clubs has officers and direc-tors responsible for club, community, world and vocational service efforts in their towns.

The Port Angeles Rotary Club — also called the Port Angeles Noon Rotary Club — is the oldest Rotary Club on the North Olympic Peninsula and celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.

The Port Angeles Rotary Club, founded April 1, 1921, is the “mother club” of the clubs for Port Townsend (Mar. 3, 1929), Sequim (Jun. 11, 1930), Port Angeles Nor’wester (March 30, 1977), East Jefferson (June 21, 1982) and Sequim-Dungeness (Dec. 24, 1985).

In honor of the momentous occasion, the club will hold an

anniversary dinner on April 9 at the Masonic Temple, located at Seventh and Lincoln streets in Port Angeles, and the public is invited.

Fellowship takes place at 6 p.m. with dinner catered by Oven Spoonful served at 7 p.m.

The keynote speaker will be Ezra Teshome, a Rotarian and recipient of the 2010 World Citizen award from the World Affairs Council of Seattle.

Rotarian Lynn Kessler, retired state representative and former House majority leader whose district included the North Olympic Peninsula, will serve as the emcee.

Tickets cost $45 each, or $80 for a couple.You do not need to be a Rotarian to attend the gala.To order tickets: If purchasing tickets with a check, contact

Doris Brown at 360-477-2162. If purchasing tickets with a credit card, contact Steve Methner at 360-460-7356.

Port Angeles Rotary celebrates 90th yearCelebratory dinner April 9 at Masonic Temple

Chuck HattenClub President

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Rotarian Lynn KesslerEmcee

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Clockwise from top left: Daffodils bloom in Port Angeles Rotary’s Welcome Garden east of Port Angeles. One of the club’s community projects was moving the former Loomis Log Cabin, now the Rotary Log Cabin, to Lincoln Park and restoring it. The June 1921 issue of “The Rotarian” men-tions the Port Angeles Club, then called Club. No. 879, in the list of new Rotary clubs. The sign to the Welcome Garden, where 40,000 tulips and daffodils bloom in the spring.

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Ezra Teshome, a Rotarian and recipient of the 2010 World Citizen award from the World Affairs Council of Seattle, will be the speaker for Port Angeles Rotary’s 90th anniversary dinner on April 9 at the Masonic Temple in Port Angeles.

The award, presented in November, recognized his leadership in working to eradicate polio in Ethiopia and his efforts for engaging and educating Washingto-nians about the impact of global health issues.

Ezra, 54, lives in Seattle but was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

After completing high school, he immigrated to the United States in 1971 to attend college. He graduated from Highline Community College in 1973 and went on to Seattle University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in pre-law and political science.

RotARy iNvolvemeNtEzra joined the University Rotary Club in 1984. He has

served as the chair for several committees and as a board member and president of the club. He currently serves as the assistant governor to District 5030 and is the 2013-2014 District governor-elect.

Through Rotary International, Ezra has spent nearly a decade leading volunteer teams to Ethiopia to help im-munize children against polio.

He leads groups on annual trips to Ethiopia, immuniz-ing about 200 children per day by going door to door, vil-lage by village — efforts for which he was also named by Time magazine as one of 10 Global Health Heros at their Global Health Summit.

In 2004, he became a leader of a comprehensive plan to bring safe water to the most critical area in Ethiopia, an ongoing project for which he has raised millions of dollars.

The success of the trips has brought people from sev-eral Rotary Districts in the United States and Canada to join the effort to eradicate polio.

Seattle Rotarian serves as gala guest speaker Ezra Teshome recipient of 2010 World Citizen award

the Port Angeles Rotary Club, born a quarter century ago, has had one of the leading parts in the growth of Port Angeles. its members, down throughout the years, have been in every endeavor that has made Port Angeles. As a club and as individuals, Rotary has become a symbol here of service to the country and community. in every battle to make this a better country, state, county and city, in which to live, Rotarians have been in the first rank giving of time and money to foster those things that are worthwhile.

— Quote from Port Angeles Rotary Club’s 25th birthday program. The event was held April 10, 1946, at Lake Crescent Lodge.

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Rotary began in Chicago, Ill., on Feb. 23, 1905. By 1913 there were 83 Rotary clubs, with 71 in the United States, five in Cana-da, and seven in the British Isles.

In November 1913, the Victoria Club No. 90 held its inaugural banquet at the Empress Hotel.

It was part of the first wave of 21 clubs in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada.

Throughout the 1920s, hundreds of new Rotarians began to live and share the “Spirit of Rotary.”

Rotary grew as the Seattle, Tacoma, Van-couver and Victoria clubs joined together to sponsor and charter new clubs throughout the western United States and Canada.

PORT ANGELES CLub hiSTORyGeorge Kuppler organized the first Ro-

tary organization on the Olympic Peninsula.The club was named Port Angeles Rotary

Club No. 879 and was officially chartered on April 1, 1921, with 23 members.

Kuppler was appointed organizing chair-man and served as the club’s first president.

Kuppler — the same Kuppler the down-town Kuppler Building on Laurel Street is named after — was also the first commis-

sioner of public works after Port Angeles adopted the commission form of government.

He was also a member of the Naval Lodge 353 of Elks and a 32nd degree Mason.

Kuppler was later instrumental in orga-nizing a Rotary club in Port Townsend and took an active part in its affairs until his return to Port Angeles.

Howard Van Brocklin, who opened The Toggery in 1914, served as the first club secretary.

Van Brocklin helped celebrate the club’s 50th anniversary and was its last surviving charter member.

For many years he also served as secretary of the G M Lauridsen Charity Trust Fund.

Benjamin N. Phillips was the first club treasurer. He helped form and merge finan-cial institutions that later became known as First National Bank, ultimately acquired by Bank of America.

He was also one of three remaining active charter members that celebrated the 50th anniversary.

With meeting places scarce, a letter from President Harding encouraged the use of the old YMCA, a fully equipped hotel.

“Ezra has inspired hundreds and hundreds of Americans and Canadians to travel overseas with our Rotary groups to accom-plish the ambitious goal of totally eradicating polio from the Afri-can continent,” says Ralph Munro, a fellow Rotarian and former Washington secretary of state.

Ezra has also arranged the delivery of ambulances to his hometown in Ethiopia, led teams to build more than 100 homes for poor women, helped to build a library and computer center in Addis Ababa, which is now used by 500 children every day, and established micro-credit programs to help families become self-sufficient.

LOCAL EffORTSHe has also worked to help build international awareness and

understanding in Seattle, led efforts to build a local Ethiopian church and provided counsel to the Pacific Science Center as an advisor to the “Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia” exhibit.

Ezra has received the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award from the University of Washington Health Science Center, the 2011 Alumni Community Service Award from Seattle University, was named District Rotarian of the Year by Rotary International and received the Humanitarian Award from the AAE Sports Hall of Fame.

He has served as a board member for several organizations in-cluding the African American Service (Catholic Community Ser-vice), Hospice of Seattle, and Seattle University’s Arts & Sciences Leadership Council, and as a trustee of the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.

Ezra and his wife, Yobi, have four children — daughters Selome, Hewan and Sophia and son Zacharias — and a grandson, Isaac. He has worked as a State Farm agent since 1974. He opened his own insurance agency in Seattle in 1982 and continues to operate that business specializing in all lines of insurance.

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For more than 75 years, students and host families have broadened their hori-zons through Rotary Youth Exchange.

More than 80 countries and 8,000 students each year participate in the program, which is administered at the regional level by Rotary districts and at the local level by Rotary clubs.

A Rotary Youth Exchange student spends up to a year living with host fami-lies and attending school in a different country.

Rotary’s long-term or short-term Youth Exchange programs help students learn

a new way of living, a great deal about themselves, and maybe even a new language.

As ambassadors, they teach people about their country, culture and ideas. They help bring the world closer — and make some good friends in the process.

Port Angeles Rotary sponsors two youths — one during the school year and one during the summer.

Paula Silva Paiane is currently Port Angeles Rotary’s long-term exchange student from District 4510 in Brazil.

Today meetings are held at the CrabHouse, but meetings were previously held at Haguewoods and Harringtons.

Two Port Angeles Rotary members have served as District governors. Art Smith held the position from 1958-59 and Leo White held it from 1984-85.

Mary Lee Long, first female member and first woman president, held office during the club’s 75th anniversary year.

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What would it take to change the world?What would it take to change the

world?Rotary International is the world’s

first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide.

Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally and inter-nationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide educa-tion and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio, all under the motto “Service Above Self.”

This goal is achieved through the organization’s Avenues of Service that form the foundation of a club’s activity: Club service, vocational service, com-munity service, international service and new generation services.

Club serviCe

Club service fo-cuses on strengthen-ing and ensuring the smooth functioning of Rotary clubs through attendance, fellow-ship and building membership.

Most of Rotary’s service efforts are carried out at the club level.

Club meetings allow members to en-joy their club’s fellowship, enrich their professional and personal knowledge, and meet other business leaders in their community.

Club fellowship, involvement in ser-vice projects and involvement in club operations are some of the best ways to sustain the club’s membership.

voCational serviCe

Vocational service involves club members serving others through their professions and aspiring to high ethical standards.

Rotarians, as business leaders, share skills and expertise through their voca-tions, and they inspire others in the process.

Community serviCe

Community service is the opportuni-ty Rotary clubs have to implement club projects and activities that improve life in the local community.

Highly visible local projects the Port Angeles Rotary Club has been involved with include moving and restoring the former Loomis Log Cabin (now Rotary

Log Cabin) to Lincoln Park, along with building new bathrooms.

This cabin is available for commu-nity use and is also used for the club’s annual picnic.

The club conducts an annual flower bulb sale, which provides revenue for the club’s general fund while enhanc-ing the attractiveness of Port Angeles.

In the spring, the fruit of their bulb sale is visible in the Welcome Garden along the highway east of town, when the 40,000 tulips and daffodils bloom.

The club also partnered with the city in building the welcome signscape in front of Thurman’s seen when entering Port Angeles.

The club’s “Outrageous Dinners” are a unique fundraising dinner event that partners with local businesses to cre-ate a one-in-a-lifetime experience.

At least once a quarter, members participate in Community Friendship dinners that are organized by the First United Methodist Church.

These meals offer support to home-less and struggling members of the community. Throughout the year, different clubs and organizations take charge of the dinners.

Other community projects include participating in the Washington State

Department of Transportation’s Adopt-a-Highway program, purchasing radio equipment, jaws of life equipment and a defibrillator for the Port Angeles Fire Department, providing matching funds for CPR training equipment, donating funds and volunteer labor for the Feiro Marine Life Center, and supporting the Port Angeles Food Bank and VIMO.

international serviCe

International Service encompasses efforts to expand Rotary’s humanitar-ian reach around the world and to pro-mote world understanding and peace.

It includes everything from contrib-uting to PolioPlus to helping Rotary Youth Ex-change stu-dents adjust to their host countries.

Port An-geles Rotary was instru-mental in introducing the Rota-plast Project to District 5020.


TOP: Port Angeles Rotary has supported five Rotaplast missions. Rotaplast Inter-

national provides free reconstructive operations for underprivileged chil-dren worldwide, treating cleft lips

and palates and more. (In the photo, the banner acknowledges students

from Queen of Angels who helped raise money to pay for the surgery.)

MIDDLE: The annual bulb sale raises funds for the club’s general fund and beautifies Port Angeles.

BOTTOM: The Rotary Log Cabin, formerly theLoomis Log Cabin, is available for community use. The club restored and moved it to Lincoln Park.

Rotaplast International is a nonprofit hu-manitarian organization that provides free reconstructive operations and treatment for underprivileged children worldwide.

The goal of Rotaplast International is to eliminate the incidence of untreated cleft lips and palates in children worldwide by the year 2025.

The club has supported five missions, with one club member serving on four mis-sion teams at her own expense to Bolivia twice, China, and the Philippines.

Rotaplast efforts actually expand far be-yond surgical intervention and help foster international goodwill, peace and under-standing by working with Rotarians as well as with health officials in host counties.

The club has con-tributed to End Polio Now since the begin-ning of the program.

Members raise a minimum of $1,000 each year for the program, which is now supported by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Port Angeles Rotary also worked with the Sequim Rotary group to raise money for ShelterBox, a program dedicated to provid-ing relief services throughout the world.

Each ShelterBox supplies an extended

family of up to 10 people with a tent and lifesaving equipment. The contents are tailored depending upon the nature and location of the disaster.

Most recently, the club is supporting ShelterBox to help Japan following the country’s disastrous earthquake.

A ShelterBox will be on display during the anniversary dinner gala on April 9

and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute.

After the Sri Lanka Tsunami in 2006, Port Angeles Rotary partnered with the Rotary Club of San Francisco to help build houses.

The club also collaborates with District 5130 to support several Rotary projects in Guadalajara, Mexico.

This enables them to make money multiply through match grants obtained from the Rotary Interna-tional Foundation.

Port Angeles Rotary recently received word of financial approval for one of their long-term projects.

An “alberge” or hospice will now have the money to purchase new beds, mattresses and commercial washing machines to replace the worn out ones donated more than 10 years ago.

They also support a Guadalajara hospital in cancer treatment of children.

A current club member was instrumental in starting the Fes-tival of Brotherhood 15 years ago when he lived in California.

Other projects included pro-viding laundry equipment for Albergue Mano Amiga Cancer and equipment for a school in Arusha, Tanzania.

MEDICAL EMERGENCY SUPPORTIn the 1980’s, the Rotary Club of Port Angeles donated over $20,000 to provide the 50% match required by the U.S. Department of Transportation to purchase the following,1.) 20 field radios with a base station. These were used in the first ten years of the Port Angeles Medic-1 program.2.) Jaws of Life to extricate individuals from auto wrecks.3.) Full set of mannequins for C.P.R. training. 4.) Supported first Emergency Medical Technician training programs at Peninsula College.5.) Over the past three years, The Rotary Club of Port Angeles has purchased two portable heart defibrillator units that have been placed in public places. Other organizations have joined in on this effort. The goal is to have an emergency defibrillator in every public building and in every Port Angeles Police patrol vehicle.CONSERVATIONThe Rotary Club of Port Angeles has contributed funding and volunteers for community conservation projects.Art Feiro Marine LabA.) Purchased and installed all of the interior sheetrock.B.) Purchased microscopes for Marine LabC.) Repainted building exterior last year.Valley CreekA.) Supplied funding for appraisals that allowed the owner of 33 lots; that blocked public access to one quarter mile of Valley Creek south of Highway 101; to donate the lots to the city of Port Angeles. The public now has access to Valley Creek from the waterfront to south of Highway 101.B.) Provided funding to receive initial grants to improve Valley Creek from Highway 101 for one half miles to the north.C.) Has developed preliminary plans with the Department Of Transportation to provide passage under Highway 101 to allow for a trail from the Port Angeles waterfront to Lake Dawn through various connecting trails in the Black Diamond area.PORT ANGELES FOOD BANK1.) Purchased materials and constructed initial shelving in Valley Creek food bank.2.) Purchased van for food bank food pickup3.) For a two year period Rotary Club members provided volunteers to staff the food bank for one day each week.HISTORICAL PRESERVATION AT LINCOLN PARK1.) During 1980- 90’s the Rotary Club of Port Angeles replaced the burned roofs of two of the historic log cabins at Lincoln Park. Also, replaced roof shakes on the other three cabins.ROTARY LOG CABIN (formerly Loomis Tavern)1.) Developed community committee that was able to have the Super Market Development Corporation donate the former Loomis Tavern to the Rotary Club of Port Angeles.2.) Between April 1995 and December 1995; the tavern was dismantled log by log. The marked logs were moved to the Lincoln Park; in cooperation The City of Port Angeles Parks and Recreation; and put together like a huge tinker toy.3.) The Kitchen (this was the card poker room in the Loomis Tavern) has been continued to be developed Rotary funding and volunteer labor. Additional work is needed.4.) The Rotary Club of Port Angeles has invested over $40,000 for improvements to the Rotary Club Log Cabin.IMPROVING LINCOLN PARK1.) Up to three years ago no restroom on the south side of Lincoln Park was connected to the city sewer system. Joint funding by the Rotary Club of Port Angeles and the City of Port Angeles has provided handicapped restrooms next to the Rotary Log Cabin that are connected to the Port Angeles city sewer system.2.) Dog Park- The Rotary Club of Port Angeles is taking a leadership position to help create an off- leash dog park at Lincoln Park.BEAUTIFICATION1.) For the last twelve years residents and visitors have enjoyed the beautiful half mile display of daffodils as they travel Highway 101 into Port Angeles from the east for two months each spring. We planted the bulbs and have spent $500 a year and volunteer labor to maintain the vitality of the bulbs.2.) Provided the bulk of the funding for the welcome display at the east end of Front Street.3.) The Rose Garden on the south side of Front Street between Albert and Vine has been a joint beautification project between the Rotary Club of Port Angeles and the Port Angeles City Parks and Recreation.4.) To reduce man power needs of the Port Angeles City Parks and Recreation the Rotary Club of Port Angeles has taken the responsibility of maintaining the half block long plantings on the south side of Front Street between Peabody and Lincoln.5.) In cooperation with the private property owner, the Rotary Club of Port Angeles has planted and maintains the plants in the triangle where Front Street and First Street join at Marine Drive.6.) Litter pickup--- For 15 years the Rotary Club of Port Angeles has worked with the Washington State Department of Transportation to litter pickup on Highway 101 west from Albertsons to Lakeside Industries.

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One of the most important objectives of Rotary is the providing of service to the community in which it exists. In fact, the third “Object of Rotary” is described as: The application of the ideal service by every Rotarian to his personal, business and community life.This can take many forms, from individual efforts to group endeavors. These activities often involvebringing non-Rotarians into the projects and serve to unite the community in a common effort toward the goal at hand.Following are brief summaries of some of the main projects of the Rotary Club of Port Angeles.


YOUTH SERVICES1.) Average $10,000 annual scholarships to the Port Angeles High School graduates.2.) Sponsorship of Little League Baseball Team.3.) Sponsorship of Cub Scout Pack.4.) Sponsorship of Boy Scout Troop.5.) Funded two delegates to annual American Legion Boys State for more than 20 years.6.) Funded two delegates to Rotary Youth Leadership Activity.7.) Funded delegates to Business week for 10 years.8.) Fund at least one in-bound Rotary Exchange Student for one year while studying at the Port Angeles High School.9.) Sponsor at least one Port Angeles High School student to live with a Rotary Club member family in a foreign country.10.) Honor each month a girl and boy student from Port Angeles High School as “Students of the Month”.11.) Host Luncheon for top 25 honor students from Port Angeles High School and school staff each June.12.) Fund tutoring opportunities for teenagers to achieve success in school through the “Rotary Black Tie Program”.13.) Rotary Club of Port Angeles has provided active leadership in promoting all school levies and bond issues.14.) Many Port Angeles School district Superintendents have been members in the Rotary Club of Port Angeles. FIRST STEP Georgiana location (1987-1994)1.) Painted the interior and exterior of the building.2.) Re landscaped.3.) Built removable fence to use parking lot for play area.West 8th and B Street location (1995-2000)1.) Painted the interior of the building.2.) Removed soil under the building to establish “Clothes Closet”.3.) Furnished material and constructed shelves for the “Clothes Closet”.4.) Constructed 100 feet of concrete walkways.5.) Relocated playground fencing in parking lot.East 6th Street location (2000- present)1.) Painted interior building.2.) Framed office cubicles in upstairs area.3.) Installed carpet in upstairs area.4.) Developed larger clothes closet.East 6th Street Location “Dorothy Duncan Center” (2009- present)1.) Landscaping A.) Donated and planted 2,000 bulbsB.) Removed shrubbery, concrete planter boxed and excess soil for outdoor play area.C.) Coordinated over 1,000 volunteer hours and donated $1,500 for new landscaping.2.) Installed new shelving and assembled new office furniture.

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Pages Sponsored by Leonard W. Beil & Travis Berglund“Since I joined the Sequim Rotary Club in 1952, I have had the opportunity to expand my interest in the community service by having a Rotary Club available to help provide the funding necessary to move an idea to a completed community project. With moral, volunteer and funding support, Rotary Clubs can help those members who wish to make a positive contribution to improve out community. It was with pleasure and pride that I was able, in 2007 to bring my grandson Travis Berglund into Port Angeles Rotary Club membership.I anticipate he will find Rotary as a vehicle to help make Port Angeles and the North Olympic Peninsula a better place to live.” Leonard W. Beil joined Sequim Rotary Club in 1952 - Classification - High School Administration - Transferred to Rotary Club of Port Angeles in 1965 - Classification - Vocational Education Administration.“Rotary has come to mean many things to me during my few years of participation: It means making new friends, enjoying their camaraderie, and working together on projects that benefit our community, as well as all over the world. Being a Rotarian is an opportunity. An opportunity to leverage the resources of a powerful force for good, to help someone whom I will never meet, and to improve quality of life in our own community. Here’s to many more years of Rotary projects in Port Angeles and beyond!” Travis M. Berglund

GRAFFITI REMOVAL1.) Coordinated graffiti removal with Port Angeles Police Department. Coordinated labor and purchased graffiti removal materials.FIRE HYDRANTS1.) Coordinated fire hydrant cleaning and painting with the Port Angeles Fire Department. The Rotary Club of Port Angeles coordinated community service hours for painting. The Fire Department furnished the paint.VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF THE OLYMPICS (VIMO)1.) Painted exterior of building.2.) Provided materials and labor to construct a custom built reception desk. 3.) Donated and planted 1,000 bulbs.COMMUNITY TRACKConstructed on wooded hillside south of Port Angeles High School gym. The Port Angeles Community Track was constructed using no tax money. The leadership for the community track program came from the Rotary Club of Port Angeles. Over $100,000 funding was raised. Over $200,000 in heavy earth moving equipment time was donated by Priest Logging. Rotary Club of Port Angeles donated $5,000. The Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles funded the concrete viewing area on the south side of the track.LAUREL STREET STAIRSIn the Summer of 2010, the Rotary Club of Port Angeles joined with the Port Angeles Downtown Association and the Port Angeles Parks and Recreation, Beautification Division to repair, paint and replace anti skid materials on the Laurel Street stairs.

Rotary Club member + Rotary Club = successful community projects

For the years 1956- 1957 John Glann Superintendent of Port Angeles School District was also the President of the Rotary Club of Port Angeles. Between 1956- 1960 Superintendent Glann lobbied the Washington State Board of Education to have a new Community College located in Port Angeles. Glann was quoted as saying, “The endorsement and support of the Rotary Clubs of the North Olympic Peninsula was vital to the approval of the Peninsula College.”


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You can be a part of all this! There are a variety of benefits you get from joining Rotary — friendship, business development, personal growth, leadership development, community citi-zenship, continuing education, and overall, fun.

Members are made up of a cross-section of the business community and include some of the most active citizens in the community.

Each week, the club holds a program de-signed to keep one informed as to what is go-ing on in the community, nation and world.

Members have the chance to do something for somebody else and experience, as the motto says, “Service Above Self.”

The Port Angeles Rotary Club meets each Wednesday at noon at the Port Angeles Crab-House Restaurant (upstairs), 221 N. Lincoln St.

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For more information about the club, visit www.parotary.org.

Promote academic achievement

The Black Tie program was established by the Port Angeles Noon Rotary Club to promote academic achievement by high school students.

These students have increased their grade point from below average to at least average in a school year.

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New generation services recognize the positive change implemented by youth and young adults through leadership development activities such as RYLA, Rotaract and Interact club service projects, and

creating international understanding with Rotary Youth Ex-change.

Rotary Youth Lead-ership Awards (RYLA) is an international program that was created by Rotary International to encourage strong leadership in youth.

Young people chosen for their leadership potential attend an all-expenses-paid camp to develop and en-hance leadership skills through activities conducted in an atmosphere of trust and respect.

Rotary’s long-term or short-term Youth Exchange programs help students learn a new way of living and maybe even a new language.

A Rotary Youth Exchange student spends up to a year living with host families and attending school in a different country. As ambassadors, they teach people about their country, culture and ideas.

(For more information on Rotary’s Youth Exchange programs, see Page 5.)

Locally, the Port Angeles Rotary Club also recog-nizes academic achievement by high school students each month, provides scholarships and encourages literacy.

The Student of the Month program recognizes two Port Angeles High School students each month during the school year. Students are recognized for their school and community involvement, activities, academics and leadership skills.

The Rotary Scholarship program provides at least seven college scholarships to area youth.

Recipients are selected based on their academic standing, character and leadership abilities, con-tributions to their schools and communities and financial need.

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Thank You Port Angeles Rotary

for 90 years of Service to our Community

Your Friends at Sequim Sunrise Rotary

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Congratulations Rotary!From Our Legacy to Yours

From Matt & Helen

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Helen says – “Come congratulate my son Matt on his acquisition of my agency.”

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Club officersPresident Chuck Hatten

President Elect Dan McKeen

Vice PresidentTerry Gallagher

Secretary Jody Moss

Treasurer Doris Brown

Sergeant At ArmsJeff Gunderson

2nd and 1st Year DirectorsTravis Berglund, Rob Onnen, Steve Landvik, Dave Weikel

Immediate Past PresidentSteve Methner

Club membersRalph BaumanLeonard BeilAllan BentleyDr. Gregory BirchJeff BohmanJennifer CiarloChris ClemPaula CunninghamWalt DavisonFrank DeckebachWilliam Michael DonohoePat DownieFloyd GabrielKelly GabrielDr. William GrayDr. Alvin GrossCommander Tony HahnPatty HannahJames Harvey

Jim HeckmanGraham HutchinsStephen KennedyChris KoenigBill KoenigAustin LeeMary Lee LongJack MarshallJoe MichalczikWarren Mitchell,

CDR Coast Guard, Ret.Steve MoriartyJerry NewlinWilliam PayneAnia PendergrassDr. Jane PryneTed RipleyJeffrey RobbBill RoberdsFred Royce

Dr. Robert ScottTodd SuessKen Sweeney

Kristin TuckerConsuelo WhiteRex Wilson

Port Angeles Rotary Club members

The Port Angeles School District contacts students who meet the requirements of the program and the Rotary Club provides mentors and tutors to each stu-dent upon request.

The goal is to promote and motivate students to

continue their education and complete high school or obtain a GED.

Students are also encouraged to continue learning through a trade center or two year or four year educa-tion program.

Recognition includes an invitation to attend a Rotary Club regular meeting where the students receive a certificate of achievement.

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145114680 Port Angeles Noon Rotary Club Members

Chuck Hatten - president

Ralph Bauman

Leonard Beil Allan Bentley Travis Berglund

Gregory Birch Jeff Bohman Doris Ann Brown

Jennifer Ciarlo

Chris Clem Paula Cunningham

Walter Davison

Frank Deckebach

Michael Donahoe

Pat Downie Floyd Garbriel Kelly Garbriel Terry Gallagher

Dr. Bill Gray

W. Alvin Gross

Jeff Gunderson Tony Hahn Patricia Hannah

James Harvey James Heckman

Graham Hutchins

Stephen Kennedy

Chris Koenig Bill Koenig

Austin Lee Mary Lee Long

Jack Marshall Daniel K. McKeen

Steve Methner Joe Michalczik Warren Mitchell

Steve Moriarty Judy Moss

Jerry Newlin Rob Onnen William Payne Ania Pendergrass

Dr. Jane Pryne Ted Ripley Jeffery Robb Bill Roberds Fred Royce

Dr. Robert Scott Todd Suess Kenneth Sweeney Kristin Tucker Dave Weikel Consuelo White Rex Wilson

Paula Paine - 2011 Exchange

Student

Steve Landvik


rotary gala 2011

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